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the base and with the margin of the aperture densely ciliate: stamens 
of two kinds; the 5 longer ones bearing small anthers, the shorter 
ones with linear anthers: style falcate, the stigmatic portion barely 
exceeding the keel; ovary covered with long rubiginous hairs; pod 
equally tapering to both ends, 1°™ long, 2-seeded, silky pubescent, 
terminated by a persistent much recurved style; seeds subsessile, 
smooth, compressed. 
Griffin’s postoffice, Ventura county, California, July, 1902. Type specimen, 
no. 3588, in Herb. Stanford University. 
It is wholly confined to dry gravelly soil along water courses, hence its name. 
Astragalus gaviotus, n. sp.—An erect densely tufted perennial 
3-57™ high: stems many from the woody base, branching above the 
middle, cinereous pubescent: lower leaves falling early, becoming 
recurved, 10°™ long, subtended by distinct acute triangular stipules 
5™™ in length; leaflets extending nearly to the base, 7-15 remote and 
scattered pairs, 15-25™™ long, 5™™ wide, the rachis usually termi- 
nated by a solitary leaflet; lower ones strigulose and short-petioled, 
the larger and older ones broadly obtuse or truncate, linear to nar- 
rowly elliptic: racemose inflorescence 2-3°™ long, terminating the 
rigid striate and strigulose peduncles 1ro‘™ long, barely exceeding 
the leaves: pedicels 5™™ long, ascending, strigose, subtended by 
shorter long acuminate strigulose bracts: calyx inflated, cup-shaped, 
3™™ long, apex apiculate but often more or less toothed, barely 
pubescent with a mixture of black and whitish hairs: corolla, stamens, 
and pistils not seen: pod persistent, compressed, spreading or becom- 
ing pendent upon pubescent usually recurved pedicels 8™™ long, 
dull or yellowish-white, 6-10™™ wide, 20-28™™ long, gradually 
a : and acuminately tapering to both ends though more often widest 
_ above the middle, apex terminated by a short blunt cusp, the sides 
et cranes but finely reticulated and under a lens only sparsely hairy, 
straighter along the dorsal edge ; seeds commonly 6, saan! stipitate, 
on ca smooth, brown, semi-reniform, strongly reticula 
ne Sencty aoil ‘not distant from the beach at Gaviota, Santa Barbara county, 
California, May 1902. Type specimen, no. 3759, in Herb. Stanford University. 
a — A. jilipes Torr, which Sener a: ae 
sus, var—A —— tufted 
pecies, with man ; from 
